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Announcing the release of HumbleNet, a project initiated at Humble Bundle in 2015 to port peer-to-peer multiplayer games, originally to asm.js and now to WebAssembly. The current open source version ...
At this point we have a TCP/IP stack that is able to communicate to other hosts in the Internet. The implementation so far has been fairly straight-forward, but missing a major feature: Reliability. Namely, our TCP does not guarantee the integrity of the data stream it presents to applications. Even establishing the…
The internet is getting noisy. Too noisy. Having grown up in the nineties, with 56k dial-up, I sometimes struggle to understand how little I'm accomplishing today with all the bandwidth I can leverage. There were some key factors that made the old internet so productive, by the way,
The top level domain of Slovakia is operated by a private company which abuses its monopoly. In the Central Europe it is something unusual.
If CenturyLink is allowed to buy Level 3 , then California will lose a major source of dark fiber. That’s my reading of a settlement agreement between CenturyLink, Level 3 and three of the organisations that challenged the deal at the California Public Utilities Commission. The fourth challenger, the California…
Last month we shared statistics on some popular reflection attacks. Back then the average SSDP attack size was ~12 Gbps.
When I first arrived at MIT in 2010, I was awed by how much computing infrastructure was readily available. Dorm rooms had 100 megabit inter...
Explain like I’m 5 years old: Kerberos – what is Kerberos, and why should I care?
Linux uses an LPC-trie for looking up routes. It provides good performance with low memory use even with millions of routes.
Guest Post: What's the source of latency on the Internet, and how can it be reduced?
We’re fueling a healthy Internet by supporting big ideas that keep the web accessible, decentralized and resilient. What will you build? Mozilla and t
UPDATE: OpenVPN fuzzers now released. Summary I’ve discovered 4 important security vulnerabilities in OpenVPN. Interestingly, these were not found by the two recently completed audits of Open…
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a faster and more secure Internet. Over the last several years, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has been working on a new version of TLS, the protocol that powers the secure web.
Torbjörn Eklöv, Co-Founder and Owner of Interlan, was an early adopter of IPv6. He shares the benefits of IPv6 adoption and offers advice to anyone who wants to enable IPv6 in their network with a static configuration from an ISP.
A quick overview of the various types of signal intelligence targets, with an emphasis on the Soviet Cold War systems
Our survey also reveals that a majority of Americans do not trust the government to protect Internet access There’s something that Americans of varied
There isn't one story to the IPv6 deployment timeline - it can be rapid or slow, bumpy or smooth - but it is 'up and to the right'.
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There are lots of edge cases I hadn't considered, and it's very inconsistent between browsers. Here's what I found…
Most users who use the internet today, are mostly focused on three protocols, HTTP, TLS, and DNS.
Today, the FCC voted on Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to repeal and replace net neutrality protections enacted in 2015. The verdict: to move forward with
A thorough understanding of the internet’s physical makeup has only recently emerged, thanks to painstaking work by UW-Madison researchers and their collaborators.
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